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Iraq
The political scene: Iraq’s Sadrists and Coordination Framework reach deadlock, Kurdish rivalry intensifies
2022-01-31
Long. Posted for those who need to know who is making the political sausage.
[Rudaw] Iraq’s government formation is once again moving forward now that the Federal Court deemed the first session of the new parliament constitutional, paving the way to elect Iraq’s next president and then designating the candidate of the largest bloc as prime minister.

In a statement issued January 25, the Speaker of Parliament Mohammed al-Halbousi announced that February 7 is the date set to elect the president. As a result, Sadrist leader, Moqtada Tater al-Sadr
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry...
, arrived unannounced in Baghdad on January 26. However,
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